Shame that Slut!

In recent days, a 16-year-old prostitute has made 48 men in Singapore household names.

There has been a projectile-vomit-like torrent of name lists in the local papers as well as online.

Singapore waits with bated breath for the release of further names and the identity of the underage hooker.

But a gag order has been issued on any information that will reveal details about the girl, violation of which can get one a fine of up to S$5000/- or jail time of up to 12 months, or both.

A bit too late, I’m afraid. The girl’s name and pictures were splattered all over the Internet long before the gag order was imposed.

But that’s besides the point.

The point is while the pimp and those 48 charged so far for commercial sex with a minor have been exposed publicly why cover up for the person without whom this whole sordid episode would not have been possible in the first place?

It was reported that the pimp Tang Boon Thiew recruited his “service providers” using Facebook to entice them to be models and then dangled the carrot of easy money by persuading them to be “escorts.”

Saturdays’ Straits Times reported that escort agencies are seeing a bigger supply of Singapore girls willing to join the trade and that “money is the biggest lure.” On Friday, The New Paper reported that “girls as young as 15 years old have called local escort agencies asking for work.”

Agency owner Kurt Tay was quoted saying “I receive such calls from underage girls every few months or so… It is an easy way for them to earn big bucks.”

So did the underage hooker who got those horny 48 to be charged did what she did because of money or because she was an innocent Goody two-shoes forced to service clients at gunpoint? (Those clients paid between S$450/- and S$750/- each time for engaging her.)

Police charge sheets revealed that there was even one afternoon when she “did” several clients. Yes, all in one afternoon.

Tang Boon Thiew, her pimp had advertised that her services included “BBBJ, AJ, AR, CIM” whatever that means.